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  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of ... NASA. At the same time, my life ambitions have shifted dramatically over

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... mind I must have gained in the past couple of weeks, cringed at some of my essays. To one of them asking why I wanted to be at Penn, I had

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  ungestalt, like looking at all the pieces and not seeing how they fit together, like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... my email on every Google Form that caught my fancy. The Assassins Guild

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  in work. Incidentally, hosed has been in use since at least 1996, based ... shot at the moon. You don't know what you're going to get. You just know ... of money. —Robo-CJ getting a job at a computer company. You get to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... forgetting) came and hung out at MIT, and we shared testimonies from each ... , BANANAS (Believers at New and Next and Simmons), and even one dedicated for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at ... state, and having the same damn last name isn’t enough—at a blogger ... was better than me at math and Japanese and writing and quiz bowl and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  eating upperclassman-cooked pancakes with too much syrup at four in the morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all ... to hang out here. Below are the events happening at Random this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... nice height Cons creepy lighting on higher floors at night second ... from Joonho's blog "places at mit," which has much prettier pictures and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once ... B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at ... quarter of our alums!!"]thirty-four bloggers[/annotation] are all at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  through their class. I labeled up to three categories per reason.  At ... you will take at MIT. so much fun. i felt like a little kid again ... .091 helped me discover my interest in course 3! At the end of each class we

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  , I have had to cross the Charles at some point. Each of them are so ... that bridges represent a central tenet of my life, at least my education ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  the wage is above Arizona’s minimum. July 2019. Working at Target ... from a gallon jug I filled up at gas stations. From there, the goal was ... disappointed in myself at the time, because I hadn’t realized how much effort

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  Box CEO Drew Houston ‘05’s commencement speech, at 2:45:42, transcribed by ... graduates, at 3:11:50, transcribed by the MIT News Office here. President Reif ... respectful, more generous, and more kind. The diplomas start at 3:23:45. See if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  guide you through the laborious process: 6:19pm: I arrive at the Tech office twenty minutes late; articles are nominally due at 6pm, so it would ... – notifying us that there's free ice cream at the coffeehouse on the third floor

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  on embedded systems, specifically looking at connected devices ... probably my favorite lecturer at MIT so far, even though I've only taken, like, 10 classes at MIT."]Joe Steinmeyer.[/annotation] This blogpost

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  anything, do anything!” And the first time I looked at the class catalog, I ... whatever I wanted, I could at least go to Splash and teach about whatever I ... Andrew L. ’22, a freshman at the time, was gushing to me about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  at high school students. Last Splash, we had 2,142 enrolled students ... uncertainty about whether or not to run Summer HSSP at all. We had Splash ... chance to, you know, grow, whatever that means. But at the same time, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  938,324,129 That Creepy Guy staring at me from across the airport ... straight up told me that I was going to do it. I practiced hard at home and ... , and the system was different. At the beginning of every piece, Mr. L

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  about her depression experience at MIT, and I truly think that she beautifully describes IHTFP at MIT. I hope this post touches you like it did for ... my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  conservative family. I did not "date" at all in high school; it was more or less ... ”, multiple or frequent interactions. Storytime (don’t laugh at me please ... was at least better than trying to fool me into thinking they wanted the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018